There are 3 messages totalling 78 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Atari Computer Equipment WANTED! 2. Switching from ISP BACK to CServe 3. tech support in Spain ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 10:51:00 EST From: Christopher McLeod Subject: Atari Computer Equipment WANTED! I am interested in old ATARI computer equipment. And I am willing to pay a decent price for the following.... 800XL or 130XE computers 1050 disk drives, xf551 disk drives, 1020 plotter, cassette drives any and all software for the atari 8-bit computer. Thank you. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 13:29:00 EST From: Christopher McLeod Subject: Switching from ISP BACK to CServe Can anyone out there convince me to stay with my UNIX based ISP instead of going BACK to CompuServe? CServe has a rate similar to my ISP (for 15 hours of CServe use). The problem is that I cannot get the hang of sending and receiving binary files. When I send attachments to myself from work, I have to save it to a dir on my ISP rather than downloading that email directly to my computer. These are added steps I would like to do without. On CServe, all I have to do is go to my mailbox and download any of the messages I want directly to my C64 (attachment and all). For example, I sent several text files to my ISP. I received them successfully. Then I had to save them all to a dir at my ISP. I then exit "elm" and do a "sz [filename]" ("filename" being the name of the file I saved all of my texfiles to). I d/l this file (containing all of the text files) and then tried to uudecode it. Well, it uudecoded the first file successfully, but it got "stuck" on the second one. It just sat there with the drive lights on for about 10 minutes (it should have only taken, at the most, 3 minutes). WHEREAS with CServe, I could have d/l each file individually, uudecoded them individually, and been just fine! :-) The only problem with going back w/ CServe is that the telnet connection for surfing won't let me d/l anything, or even set up a bookmark file. Those problems are what is keeping me with the ISP. Can anyone help? Possibly give me a lead on a more user friendly ISP? Maybe that is all that is available for UNIX users, I don't know. Thanks for you help! Chris McLeod (of the clan MacLeod) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 15:06:28 -0700 From: Tim Phelps Subject: tech support in Spain I received an e-mail message asking me if there was technical support in Spain for the Commodore. I've searched and looked but have found nothing so I'm posing the question here. Is there any? -- Tim Phelps -- The comments I made above are my own. T.Phelps4@genie.com / ar249@lafn.org / http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/3284 http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/4645 ------------------------------ End of COMMODOR Digest - 1 Aug 1996 to 2 Aug 1996 ************************************************* =END=